The Mets were two games up on Atlanta to start the final week, and ahead of Arizona slightly. Sitting "Wild Card pretty". But...
The Braves so far have decided to take the last week seriously, winning 3 straight so far, this week and 5 straight overall while the Mets have been moribund, and lost 3 straight in dismal fashion by a collective score of 19-5.
Only Arizona has been cooperating and is essentially tied with the Mets. The Mets have 3 very tough games left, the Deebs just one.
If the Deebs win today, the Mets will have to this very day WAKE UP, START WINNING, OR GO GOLFING.
This reminds me of one of those movies where the driver on a winding mountain road suddenly goes unconscious, and the edge of the cliff gets closer. Will the driver reawaken in time to not sail off the cliff?
I have serious doubts this ends well. It's a Mets organization thing.
What they do best in their last 50 years. Fail.
Keep in mind that even the blindingly bad Chicago White Sox have shown more cojones than the Mets.
The White Sox had free-fallen to 33-116. A lock to obliterate the Mets' 40-120 disaster of 1962.
But since 33-116, desperately trying to avoid the worst ever % win-loss record, they have won 7 of their last 12 to sit at 40-121.
Slap the unconscious driver hard. Maybe he will wake up.
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Only way. Arizona loses and Braves set their rotation leaving their best for playoffs. Maybe, the Mets will squeak out a game in the DH
Martin, you are being logical. Technically, while games remain to be played, the Mets do have a chance.
What could go wrong?
1. Jeff McNeil the only player in MLB history to break a bone on a 75 MPH pitch.
2. Iron Man Lindor becomes mortal, missing more than a week.
3. Alvarez wrenches his back.
4. Senga looks ready - then is not - again.
5. Hopes for Scott and Dedniel to bolster the pen vaporize.
6. Salary Drive Alonso becomes the Invisible Man.
7. JD Martinez, acquired in part for his professional hitter skills, is 3 for his last 51, a stretch that makes one wonder if Darin Ruf could have been coaxed out of retirement for the stretch drive and JD released.
Other than that, and the frequent Reed Garrett imitations of Adrian Houser, all is good.
"911... what is your emergency?"
"I THINK MY BASEBALL TEAM IS DEAD"
"Why do you say that?"
THEY STOPPED HITTING. THEIR DEFENSE TURNED SOUTH AND THEIR ELITE STARTERS HAVE RETURNED TO BEING JUST OLD MEN"
"Have you tried CPR?"
"DO YOU KNOW WHERE THOSE LIPS HAVE BEEN?"
"What's the name of your team?
"THE NEW YOUR METS"
(pause on phone...)
"Sir, that is not an emergency"
"WELL, WHAT IS IT?
"Reality sir... reality "
Mack, well put. Part of it also is being Big Man on Campus and coming up small:
Baseball Reference has a stat called "Late and Close". Pete Alonso in 2024 in Late and Close? Just 11 for 81, 2 HRs, 7 RBIs.
IMO
Pete Alonso has done nothing to prove that he is deserves a lengthy extension
I've said that many times on another fan site, and been accused of being a "hater" of Pete.
If I hated him, I'd be laughing at his ineptitude with MOB, not bemoaning it.
He'd be better off accepting the QO, and hoping to earn the big contract next year.
At one point this past March or April, I was wondering if they would not have been better off trading Pete and signing Rhys Hoskins instead of Martinez. It looks like maybe I should have suggested that to the powers that be.
TDA who we foolishly let go of because we had so many good catchers in the system , thank you again Fred and Jeff, hit the walk off last night and I know Mack doesn't like to look back but I do even though I shouldn't because it's rarely good news like not signing Wheeler or Murphy or not letting Lugo into the starting rotation on this morning of gloom. Being beaten soundly by the team David built I guess has an upside because with his backround and his bosses bucks we almost have to be better next year right?
Wayback when I guessed 87 wins. I certainly hope I’m wrong.
I am with Gary and others who are 1) Getting old and 2) Want Post Season Success. My brother Steve is younger but has the same feeling. His solution? Screw the cap, screw the draft pick penalty. He said Steve Cohen is uber-wealthy, and why not have a $600 million payroll to get all the pieces you need? Soto, yes. Burnes, yes. Pete, yes. Bullpen elite? Yes. Use the farm to help facilitate deals, build a super team, and keep buying super players. Cohen can afford any tax bill and salary level.
The Mets face Colin Rea today. Last 7 outings, 25 IP, 7.43 ERA. Not facing Chris Sale. Mets are out of excuses.
Tom, the Mets will wake up today. It’s best that they got their slump out of themselves before the post season. And, if the Diamondbacks lose as the Mets are winning, there may not be a double header tomorrow. Just Mets stay in Milwaukee to start there on Tuesday. And that should scare the crap out of the Brewers because the Mets will have awakened by then and be rested. Something they won’t be if they need to go to Atlanta.
Gary, you say what we all think, but leave out something important: The Milwaukee Brewers had the advantage of being invisible and even LOST their best reporter from The Athletic. The Mets have seventeen beat reporters and two from The Athletic, as the one the Brewers lost was sent to the Mets to join Tim Britton who became a more national writer. This microscope creates alot of pressure on the team all year and only certain players can handle it. You need to find those ballsy guys and since the Mets want choir boys, they are that much harder to locate.
R69, there was barely a market for Alonso, and especially since Hoskins wasn’t getting signed either, you could understand the trepidation of any team to trade for Alonso when Hoskins just cost money. But even a Hoskins coming off injury got 2/$34MM, when Conforto coming off injury got 2/$36, and Giolito coming off shitting the bed got 2/$38. So, Alonso will get a decent offer - just not the one he was expecting - but 30+ homeruns are 30+ homeruns.
Alonso will not give the Mets a chance to match… he wants to leave Citifield. Good luck getting those Citibank commercials in Washington DC.
If Pete misses the playoffs, it has to hurt his the size of his contractual hopes. Why? In his career, he is 3 for 10, 1 RBI, in the playoffs. No track record, really, of whether he will be a playoff bust.
Gus, hope springs eternal.
Interesting idea. But, Cohen is on the record saying that he doesn’t want to just be a fool and keep losing money. Would Steve do it if the money was his?
I think he would, if he was worth $20 billion.
Pete has not had 1 hot streak and that more than almost anything is why we haven't rapped up a spot yet. His hitting with risp is dreadful and I would give him a QO only and then put mark at first.
;-)
Ask him, but tell him to think hard about it first.
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